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Int J Biol Macromol ; 43(5): 426-32, 2008 Dec.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-18809430

RESUMO

The Notch signaling pathway (NSP) is an important intercellular communication mechanism that regulates embryo development and adult physiological functions. The Hairless (H) protein is a powerful antagonist of the NSP by its interaction with the Suppressor of Hairless (Su[H]) protein, recruiting the corepressors Gro and CtBP. In the present work, we examined the role of several important amino acids in different H protein domains analyzing four mutant lines of Drosophila melanogaster. The mutant alleles were evaluated by single-strand conformational polymorphism (SSCP) analysis and we located mutated regions at different positions along the sequence of the Hairless gene.


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Proteínas de Drosophila/química , Proteínas de Drosophila/genética , Mutação Puntual/genética , Fatores de Transcrição/química , Fatores de Transcrição/genética , Sequência de Aminoácidos , Animais , Proteínas de Drosophila/metabolismo , Drosophila melanogaster/química , Drosophila melanogaster/genética , Drosophila melanogaster/metabolismo , Dados de Sequência Molecular , Mutação Puntual/fisiologia , Polimorfismo Conformacional de Fita Simples/genética , Receptores Notch/genética , Transdução de Sinais/genética , Fatores de Transcrição/metabolismo
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PLoS One ; 9(5): e97924, 2014.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-24844228

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For several years, DEAD box RNA helicase Vasa (DDX4) has been used as a bona fide germline marker in different organisms. C. elegans VBH-1 is a close homolog of the Vasa protein, which plays an important role in gametogenesis, germ cell survival and embryonic development. Here, we show that VBH-1 protects nematodes from heat shock and oxidative stress. Using the germline-defective mutant glp-4(bn2) we found that a potential somatic expression of vbh-1 might be important for stress survival. We also show that the VBH-1 paralog LAF-1 is important for stress survival, although this protein is not redundant with its counterpart. Furthermore, we observed that the mRNAs of the heat shock proteins hsp-1 and sip-1 are downregulated when vbh-1 or laf-1 are silenced. Previously, we reported that in C. elegans, VBH-1 was primarily expressed in P granules of germ cells and in the cytoplasm of all blastomeres. Here we show that during stress, VBH-1 co-localizes with CGH-1 in large aggregates in the gonad core and oocytes; however, VBH-1 aggregates do not overlap with CGH-1 foci in early embryos under the same conditions. These data demonstrate that, in addition to the previously described role for this protein in the germline, VBH-1 plays an important role during the stress response in C. elegans through the potential direct or indirect regulation of stress response mRNAs.


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Proteínas de Caenorhabditis elegans/genética , Proteínas de Caenorhabditis elegans/metabolismo , Caenorhabditis elegans/genética , Caenorhabditis elegans/metabolismo , RNA Helicases DEAD-box/genética , RNA Helicases DEAD-box/metabolismo , Estresse Fisiológico/genética , Animais , Animais Geneticamente Modificados , Proteínas de Caenorhabditis elegans/química , RNA Helicases DEAD-box/química , Regulação da Expressão Gênica , Gônadas/metabolismo , Proteínas de Choque Térmico/genética , Ligação Proteica , Domínios e Motivos de Interação entre Proteínas , Transporte Proteico , Interferência de RNA , RNA Nucleotidiltransferases/metabolismo , RNA Mensageiro/genética
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